Tag: #periods
Articles tagged with #periods
Healthy periods
Ensuring taboo-free and safe menstruation for all Nepali women on World Menstrual Hygiene Day, 28 May
Shamed for bleeding
Nepali women still have to deal with period shame
Yoga in the time of Covid-19
In July 2019 when I was 36, I wrote an article about how I struggled to believe that periods are not impure after over two decades of getting my…
Communicating to remove menstrual taboo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezfdhBKEtsEGrowing up in Chitwan, Radha Paudel’s father used to tell her stories of faraway Jumla: how it took…
Nepal’s superwomen beat superstition
DEFYING TRADITION: This cow shed in Kailali used for menstural banishment. It has now been turned into a store room for rice husk.Media reports…
That time of the month
Illustration: DIWAKAR CHETTRIThe practice of chhaupadi in which women in western Nepal are banished to cow sheds during their periods grabs a…